(25 June 2014) The Coursera Cup Leaderboard is a measurement of the most active Courserians per capita per country/region with over 10k learners. It is a measure of “Activity” by video lectures watched and number of learners per capita: Top 5 countries: Singapore Taiwan Hong Kong Ireland Australia To see the top 30 click here.
(23 June 2014) IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced that five of the company’s research journals will become electronic only and will no longer print paper editions. This transition will take effect with the 2015 subscription year and affects Biofabrication, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Biomedical Materials, Journal of Breath Research and Physical Biology. This decision has been…
(23 June 2014, Boston) The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today that it has received USD300,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight News Challenge, an open contest seeking ideas that strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation. Selected from more than 650 applicants, DPLA’s…
(23 June 2014, Alexandria, VA) Hundreds of essential fashion videos are now available online with the debut of Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library. The new collection will grow to deliver 1,200 hours of film footage, capturing nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, and documentaries in one convenient online learning interface. This…
(18 June 2014) Ithaka S+R has just published Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host-Institution Support beyond the Start-Up Phase, undertaken with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The final report explores the question of sustainability from the institutional point of view: while many libraries and digital humanities centers think deeply about supporting digital…
No. 194, June 2014 Selections from NDL Collection A born settler: Mineichiro Adachi and Permanent Court of International Justice Events Japanese Studies Support Symposium “What can Japanese Libraries do to support Japanese studies outside Japan? Libraries in the “Big Data” era: Strategies and Challenges in Archiving and Sharing Research data Article Lecture at CEAL/NCC Pre-Conference…
An award-winning building on Australia’s Gold Coast is home to Griffith University Learning Commons, offering students a choice of formal and informal learning spaces. The Designing Libraries website has the story and pictures.
(18 June 2014) OEDb.org lists and describes several little known collections offering millions of free hi-res images. Visit the list here.
(16 June 2014, Kuala Lumpur) Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (PNM) has unveiled Malaysia’s first Samsung SMART Library. Located at the first floor of the National Library’s main building this first of its kind digital-book reading zone results from a public-private partnership between PNM and Samsung Malaysia Electronics (SME) Sdn Bhd. The Samsung SMART Library at PNM…
(18 June 2014) The Information Literacy weblog reports that there is a revised draft of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Feedback is sought (via a surveymonkey form) on the revised draft. The weblog has more.
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